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Former VAN HALEN/EXTREME frontman Gary Cherone has been added to the already illustrious line-up for this year's White Ribbon Concert at Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre on June 8, according to Chart Attack. The charity concert, now in its seventh year, is spearheaded by THE TEA PARTY's Jeff Martin in an effort to raise awareness about ...

KISS guitarist Tommy Thayer has posted the following message on his web site: "Hello! I want to start out by thanking everyone for the amazing number of e-mails and letters I've been getting as of late from all of you. Your words show that the caring devotion to the 'Hottest Band in the Land' runs ...

Sweden's DEATHSTARS had a good portion of their gear stolen shortly after arriving home following their appearance last weekend at the Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany. "During the night someone had managed to break into the band's tour bus and stole big parts of their backline, instruments worth approx. $15,000," the group write on ...

German death metallers FALLEN YGGDRASIL have uploaded two MP3s off their upcoming sophomore album, "Building Up A Ruin To Come", at their official web site. Check out the title track and an excerpt of "I Burn" at this location. "Building Up A Ruin To Come" was mixed at Maranis studios and is due ...

MTV.com is currently offering a free audio preview of the entire VELVET REVOLVER album, "Contraband", due on June 8 through RCA Records. Listen to all of the album's 13 tracks at this location. In other news, Billboard is reporting that VELVET REVOLVER's "Contraband" will be one of three albums BMG (RCA's parent company) ...

Bassist extraordinaire Tony Franklin (ex-THE FIRM, BLUE MURDER, WHITESNAKE) has posted the following message on his web site: "Hello folks. It's been a long time since my last update, so let's get right to it!! I'll start with the most current happenings and work back from there. "I will be participating in the Eric Clapton ...

In a recent interview with Holland's Lords Of Metal, ANNIHILATOR mastermind Jeff Waters spoke out about why so many people have left his band over the years. "Haha, I don't think I am that hard to work with," Waters said. "I only fired someone from my band twice to be honest all of ...

The London-based death/thrash band DESCENT have been confirmed as support for CRADLE OF FILTH's gig at the Camden Underworld on Friday, June 4. Currently unsigned, DESCENT have uploaded their entire November 2003 demo at their official web site. You can download the tracks "Reveal", "World Of Dreams", "Dust Of the Fallen" and "Concrete Self" at ...

An MP3 sample of the track "Believe In Me", taken from Jeff Scott Soto's (TALISMAN/ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) forthcoming album, "Lost In The Translation", has been made available at this location. "Believe In Me" is "an amazing melodic rock up-tempo written by Jeff with Neal Schon of JOURNEY who is also ...